Mary Josephine Hannon Fitzgerald

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Mary Josephine "Josie" Hannon (October 31, 1865 - August 8, 1964) was the wife of John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald (her second cousin), the mother of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother-in-law of Joseph P. Kennedy and maternal grandmother of John F., Robert and Ted Kennedy. She was 49 when her first grandson, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., was born.

Josephine Hannon was born on October 31, 1865 in Acton, Massachusetts to Irish immigrants Michael Hannon and Mary Ann Fitzgerald. She was the fifth of nine children, only four of whom survived. One brother died of fever at the age of six, while Josie's mother was pregnant with her; another had died of a lung inflammation four years earlier. Two sons died early of alcoholism, while the one who survived had his leg crushed by a train at age thirteen. The youngest girl drowned with her best friend while Josie was supposed to be caring for them, an event that would mark her and her two surviving sisters for the rest of their lives.^[1]

On September 18, 1889, Hannon married John Fitzgerald.

Mary Josephine Fitzgerald died on August 8, 1964 just two months short of her ninety-ninth birthday as a multiple great-grandmother.

[edit] Children

Name	Birth	Death	Notes
Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald	July 22, 1890	January 22, 1995	Married on October 7, 1914 to Joseph P. Kennedy; had issue.
Mary Agnes Fitzgerald	November 1, 1892	September 17, 1936	Married on April 29, 1929 to Joseph F. Gargan; had issue.
Thomas Acton Fitzgerald	April 19, 1895	1968	Married on September 7, 1921 to Marion D. Reardon (died February 7, 1925). Married again on October 11, 1930 to Margaret B. Fitzpatrick.
John Francis Fitzgerald, Jr.	December 7, 1897	1979	Married on April 28, 1928 to Catherine O'Hearn.
Eunice Fitzgerald	January 26, 1900	September 25, 1923
Frederick Harold Fitzgerald	December 3, 1904	February 1935	Married on October 26, 1929 to Rosalind Miller.